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Great Dark Spot
Published:
December 17, 2004
Great Dark Spot
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Icy Profile
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Fragment W Impact With Jupiter
This raw, unprocessed image of Enceladus was taken on May 18, 2010, by the Cassini spacecraft, which was approximately 75,000 kilometers (46,500 miles) away at the time. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI + Ra...
Enceladus - Raw
Musical Rings September 27, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06485 Looking something like the fibrous bow of a violin, Saturn's colorful rings sweep ...
Musical Rings
Rhea enters the Cassini spacecraft's field of view and glides lazily across the scene as the spacecraft observes Saturn's restless atmosphere. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. This vi...
Icy Interloper
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows small rilles (scars) on asteroid Vesta's surface, mostly concentrated in the right half image, presumably due to impacts throwing out boulders, which cr...
Rilles on Vesta's Surface
This view from NASA's Dawn mission shows Ceres' tallest mountain, Ahuna Mons. A significant amount of sodium carbonate has been found, shown in green and red colors in the lower right image.
Ahuna Mons
Some of Saturn's satellites lie within the rings while others are outside the ring system. This slide illustrates the relationship between satellites and rings around Saturn. The ring plane crossin...
Saturn Systems Road Map
Enceladus looks as though it is half lit by sunlight in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but looks can be deceiving.
Dark Side of the Moon: Enceladus
The terminator encroaches upon Penelope, one of the largest craters on Saturn's moon Tethys. Two other large craters, Polyphemus and Phemius, are visible near the limb in this view of the southern ...
Penelope on Tethys
+ View Full Res This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on April 15, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Tethys at approximately 115,714 miles (186,224 kilometers) away. This image has...
Tethys Portrait (Raw Image)
Three of the small worlds that hug the outer edges of Saturn's immense ring system are captured in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. The two F ring shepherd moons, Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 6...
Three Little Moons
Cassini looks toward the brilliant disk of Saturn, surrounded by the icy lanes of its rings. Faint wisps of cloud are visible in the atmosphere. At bottom, ring shadows trace delicate, curving line...
Hidden Wonders
The dim, unlit side of Saturn's rings hides a secret in this view. Shy Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across) can be seen peeking out from behind the rings below center. The bright features i...
Hiding a Moon
Commonly known as "The Little White House" at 1520 H Street, NW, in Washington, DC.
NASA's First Headquarters
+ View Full Res This image was obtained by Cassini's radar instrument during a flyby on Feb. 7, 2009. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 960 kilometers (597 miles) durin...
Titan Radar Swath (T-50 Flyby - Feb. 7, 2009)
ORIGINAL CAPTION: At Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers are installing three Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) on the Cassini spacecraft.
Installing a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)
+ Unannotated version The southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Mimas is seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available Cassini and Voyager images. Each map is centered ...
Mimas Polar Maps - February 2010
Presented here are side-by-side comparisons of a traditional Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) view, at left, and one made using a new technique for handling electronic noise that results in c...
Leilah Fluctus Despeckled
Catching Saturn's Waves September 17, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06479 The Cassini spacecraft captured this artistic view of elegant waves and...
Catching Saturn's Waves
A large dark region fills a semicircle of the visible disk of Iapetus on the left of this Cassini spacecraft image, appearing like a bite taken out of this Saturnian moon. See Global View of Iapet...
Bite Out of Iapetus
This artist's concept shows an x-ray image of the Phoenix Lander in its pre-landing stowed configuration.
X-Ray Vision
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Deep Color
The small moon Mimas passes in front of the larger moon Rhea, which is partly obscured by Saturn's rings, in this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Before a Veiled Rhea
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.
New View of the Pillars of Creation — Visible
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NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua
ESA's Science Programme Committee confirmed the continued operations of ten scientific missions in the agency's fleet up to 2022.
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NASA's InSight lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at approximately 3 p.m. EST Nov. 26, and viewers everywhere can watch coverage of the event live on NASA Television, the agency's website and social media platforms.
NASA Brings Mars Landing, First in Six Years, to Viewers Everywhere Nov. 26
NASA will host a live Science Chat at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 7, to discuss upcoming encounters of two of the agency’s planetary missions, New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx.
NASA Hosts Science Chat on Two Upcoming Out-of-this-World Encounters
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer. The switch will enable engineers to do a detailed diagnosis of a technical issue that has prevented the rover's active computer from storing science and some key engineering data since Sept. 15.
Curiosity on the Move Again
